SLIVERS OF TIME - WHAT'S IN A NAME?
September 1, 2008 Posted by Stephen Hilton in : Bristol, Bristol City Council, South Bristol, jobs, Guest Bloggers, Business, humanising the council , 6 comments
I am Stephen Hewitt, Bristol City Council’s Slivers-of-Time Co-ordinator.
As you may know ‘Slivers-of-Time‘ is a Government backed initiative to help tackle worklessness, improve local services and develop skills. Slivers-of-Time IT already operates in a number of places - East London, Hammersmith and Fulham, Leeds and Liverpool.
It is a virtual employment agency that brings together casual workers (sellers of time) and employers (buyers of time) through a web-based system. It offers a radical new employment model to those who have limited or irregular work availability and therefore find it difficult to gain access to employment through the usual means. It allows them to balance family and caring responsibilities, study commitments and health issues with part-time work commitments. For employers, it allows them to use the Slivers-of-Time to more efficiently meet their business needs by employing temporary/casual staff just when they need them, and at short notice.
